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Stan Friedman
310-828-1172
www.stanfriedmansight.com
stan_friedman@earthlink.net
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Imagery has always been, for me, central to communication. Heightened, possibly even seeded, while I tried vainly to convince my intractable 1st grade teacher that the front door to our home was really, really, really blue! Somehow, the obvious truth of my still
damp watercolor ran out of gas miles from her world. It was like an empty truth unable to even hitch a ride on my protesting voice. Over the years I have been driven by a passion to build images upon visions, whether by word, picture or by sound onto moving film/video or, perhaps quietly to present them as a printed page or still photo. This passion has carried my fueled “truth” down many different roads.
As a film editor I have sequenced, bent and even created images from visions. As a cinematographer and videographer I have, guided by vision, corralled images. As a producer I have branded and sold images. All the while, all the time, as a photographer I have collected images from the cracks between visions.
Historically, much to the dismay of many around me, my work and my life resemble more “a crime of passion” than “premeditated murder”. I don’t really have much of a guiding philosophy beyond searching continuously for a “feeling” (usually deep in my stomach) that has always, in all areas of my life, been a connection to the “zone”, the higher self”, “the spirit”, “blind-luck”, “a signpost” and that sort of thing.
So, currently photography is my own little process of transferring the feeling of a personal, meditative (light trance) space into a visual image. Some of the feedback I have received from those who view my work tells me that they have experienced in it a “quiet depth”. Some have said that my images seem to create a momentary void that is quickly filled with the viewers own experiences and perspectives. In that light my work is much less about “my images” and more about creating personal, meditative “triggers” for others.
This contemplative body of work is a consideration of the moments between visions where objects are allowed to tell their own stories; where images are both observed and listened to; where the formality of a visual haiku form opens a door (blue?) to the infinity. Once I was told: “You have the ability to find and express the calmness and depth of a Zen garden in your visions of the mundane.” I have always liked that thought!
Exhibitions & Awards
2010 MOPLA - Month of Photography, Los Angeles
"Waiting for the Bread", MOPLA Smashbox Group Show.
2009 Worldwide Photographic Gala Awards, London, England
"Waiting for the Bread", Honorable Mention - Fine Art Category.
2008 "2nd Prize", Photo of the Month, Feb '08, Imaging Resources, Woodstock, Georgia.
2007 "3rd Prize", 2007 National Juried Photo Competition - Through A Lens - Life in Motion,
Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, California - juror: Michael Collopy.
2006 "1st Place/Amateur, Outstanding Achievement-People" International Color Awards,
London, & Los Angeles, California - jurors: 23 member panel
2005 "1st Place/Professional", "Best of Show", First Annual Visual Arts Exhibit and Awards,
Reno, Nevada - jurors: Rachel Hartsough, Dean Burton.
"3rd Prize", 2005 National Juried Photo Competition - Through A Lens - The Human Element,
The Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, California - juror: Michael Collopy.
2004 "1st Place, Posed", 2004 New Photography. Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, California
- jurors: Sant Khalsa, Robert Ketchum, Nelson Trombley, Robert Ketchum, Meg Linton.
“Exposure 2004 – 6th Annual Photo Exhibition”, East Village Arts District, Long Beach, CA.
"2nd Prize", 2004 National Juried Photo Competition - Through A Lens - Urban Landscapes,
The Coastal Arts League, Half Moon Bay, California - juror: Richard Newman
2003 "2nd Place, Non-Professional, Fine-Art Portraits", "Honorable Mention",
"Peoples' Choice Nominee", 1st Annual International Photography Awards, Los Angeles,CA
"2nd Place, People", 12th Annual Fall American Photography Competition - 3 prints accepted for exhibition.Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso, New Mexico
"Accepted for Catalogue", 19th Annual Intl Photography Competition 2003, The Photo Review, Longhorne, Pennsylvania - ………and more awards previous to this………….
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Mckinley Arts & Culture Center, Reno NV *** 2005 Our Café Santa Monica CA
2004 Exit Gallery, University Nevada, Reno, NV *** 2004 Becton Dickenson Biosciences, San Jose, CA
2004 First Federal Bank of California, Pacific Palisades *** 2003 Don’s Cutting Edge, Santa Monica, CA
2003 First Federal Bank of California, Pacific Palisades ….And more…..
Group Exhibitions
2008 4th Annual Natl Art Program, Reno, NV ** 2008 Emerging Artists, Source on Lake, Pasadena, CA
2007 Natl Juried Photo Competition -1/2 Moon Bay, CA ** 2006 Nights at Art Gallery, UCLA Campus L.A, CA
2006 Masters of Photography, Curitiba, Brazil ** 2006 1st Annual Visual Arts Exhibit, Reno, NV
STAN’S WORK HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN NUMEROUS MOVIES, VIDEOS, JOURNALS & PUBLICATIONS
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